TEDxHouston - Brené Brown

Dr. Brené Brown is a researcher professor at the University of Houston, Graduate College of Social Work, where she has spent the past ten years studying a concept that she calls Wholeheartedness, posing the questions: How do we engage in our lives from a place of authenticity and worthiness? How do we cultivate the courage, compassion, and connection that we need to embrace our imperfections and to recognize that we are enough -- that we are worthy of love, belonging and joy? Brené is the author of I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Telling the Truth About Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power (2007) and the forthcoming books, The Gifts of Imperfection (2010) and Wholehearted: Spiritual Adventures in Falling Apart, Growing Up, and Finding Joy ( 2011).

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• sociology
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[ljdbg]

@jsh181 The thousand of stories she received is the data that backed up her claims. She analysed that data and drew a conclusion.To me, that very clearly makes her a sociological researcher. Good day sir.

[fctchk]

@ljdbg The plural of anecdote does not data make.

[icebreakers1984]

Absolutely phenomenal

[jfosorio]

@22zson Maybe she is right but the data she present in this talk don't support her conclusions. I can be wrong, this is why I say it SEEMS to me... I would like to know if it is true and this is was the idea of my comment. On the other hand your reply express quite a bit of discomfort.

[HueyTheDoctor87]

@fctchk

That's a foolish way of thinking. I suppose UFOs don't exist, at all, in any form, because we cannot look at the anecdotes of literally millions of people as having any credibility, despite their profession or intelligence? If everybody on Earth suddenly saw the sky as bright pink, would you ignore the testimony of 7 billion people as "worthless anecdotes"? I suppose you would, until you looked up at the sky and saw it for yourself.

[browser809]

Wow guys no offence but there is a lot of mental masturbation going on here and looking for things that aren't there

[teachgriff]

@fctchk I will agree that she doesn't present her methodology well, nor is this a very well-organized talk. At the same time, my sense is that you are only aware of quantitative research design. Unfortunately, to measure open-ended and qualitative questions, quantitative measures are not enough. It is also unfortunate that the methods are not made more clear here. However, you can begin by reading Gregory Kelly's essay on epistemologies and Corbin and Strauss's text on grounded theory.

[SethSutherland]

"I know that's knowing laughter, I hack into your lives for a living." LOL